Pause.
Trust yourself.
Trust your heart and the impulses and desires that lay deep within you.
Within you.
Trust not the surface pulls,
Or the surface wants,
Or the surface grasping for control to soothe your restless body.
Seek to quiet that layer of noise.
Pause in your day as frequently as possible.
When you notice yourself encumbered with noise,
Thoughts,
Opinions,
Judgments,
Memories,
Plans,
Goals,
Pause.
When you notice yourself swirling with emotions,
Urgency,
Frustration.
Excitement,
Disappointment,
Longing.
Pause.
Notice all that moves within you.
Feel.
All that moves within you.
Without doing anything about it.
No actions other than feeling.
And this is hard,
Otherwise more people would be doing it more frequently.
We don't learn this as children.
Children don't often see their parents pausing and placing their hands on their hearts and asking themselves.
What am I feeling right now?
And then giving themselves time to feel it.
Most of us didn't learn this.
So we learn it now.
We begin where we are.
Feel yourself in space.
Feel your breath.
Feel your body breathe.
As many times as you can in a day pause.
And stop.
And feel yourself in space.
Place your hand on your body and your belly or your chest.
Just feel yourself.
Give yourself permission to feel whatever it is you are feeling,
And feel it.
No story.
No narrative,
No reason for the feeling.
Let all that go.
And just feel this moment now.
How frequently can you do this over the course of your day?
Without interruption.
Without sound in the background.
Silence and quiet around you will help silence and quiet take root within you.
Stop performing.
Improving.
Producing.
Whatever it is.
Let yourself simply float.
An anxious,
Scared body will sink under the water.
A relaxed,
Trusting body will float.
Pause over and over and over.
Slow down.
Take time to smell the roses,
Literally.
Take time to go for a walk,
A slow walk.
Lean against a tree and feel the support on your back.
Put the phone down.
Turn the podcast off.
Listen to the sound of silence.
It's okay if the noise within you amplifies briefly.
Let it.
Just breathe.
Let the noise within you have its say so it can quiet down.
That which we resist just persists.
So allow everything.
And watch the noise dissolve.
And as this noise on the surface dissolves,
And as you experience a quieter sense of being,
You know yourself.
You see yourself.
You feel yourself.
You trust yourself.
You love yourself.
And this is everything.
All because you learn.
To pause.
